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Mocana Releases Industry's First LTE Security Solution for 4G Mobile Device Design Teams
NanoCert LTE Makes Adding Security Features to LTE Telecom Appliance Designs Easy and Inexpensive While Helping Product Teams Get Secure 4G Products to Market Faster
| Source: Mocana
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - October 5, 2009) - Mocana announced first shipments of NanoCert LTE, the mobile
industry's first software developer's solution focused on securing LTE /
3GPP / 4G infrastructure devices like eNodeB base stations and Serving
Gateways.
NanoCert LTE was designed specifically for large telecom carrier rollouts
and scales to secure millions of devices. Mocana's new software
dramatically lowers the development costs associated with securing new LTE
devices, and enables design teams to get new, more secure LTE products to
market much faster than before.
NanoCert LTE's announcement further asserts Mocana's leadership in the
fast-growing cellular security market, following last year's release of
NanoPhone (now marketed as DSF
for Android), the first comprehensive security suite designed for
Google's Android platform.
NanoCert LTE is one of three new editions of Mocana's NanoCert product
line, which also includes NanoCert Client and NanoCert Advanced. LTE
appliance manufacturers and development teams can request a free trial copy
of NanoCert LTE at http://mocana.com/nanocert.html.
Over 100 major OEM companies including Motorola, Cisco, Intel, General
Electric, Honeywell and Siemens already rely on Mocana software to
guarantee device integrity for their products in the consumer, medical,
industrial, IT and military markets. NanoCert LTE is part of the new 5.1
release of Mocana's Device Security Framework, the industry's most
comprehensive suite of embedded security solutions for non-PC devices.
About LTE and 4G Security
Certificate-based authentication is a prerequisite for Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) and for securely administering PKI-enabled networked
devices and services. PKI is widely deployed and many wireless technologies
and protocols depend upon it, including LTE (also known as 3GPP or 4G).
Certificates need to be updated frequently to ensure the device is only
operated by the assigned user, that the device has the most updated user
privileges and that the device has the most recent upgrades in its service.
Manually updating certificates is error-prone, inefficient and doesn't
scale, especially when networks have tens of millions of devices in the
field.
NanoCert LTE combined with Mocana's best in class IPSec solution NanoSec,
secures connections between LTE eNodeB base stations and LTE Serving
Gateway (SGW) devices. It also uses CMPv2 to secure LTE (Long Term
Evolution) infrastructure devices for device-to-device and subscriber
authentication, as specified under the international 3GPP standards.
NanoCert LTE's LDAPv3 (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) client
automatically retrieves appropriate certificates and certificate revocation
lists (CRLs) from LDAP servers.
NanoCert LTE includes an integrated Oracle database for scalability, and
features robust and fast boot-up and recovery, with sophisticated logging
capabilities. NanoCert LTE's IKE implementation pre-authenticates and
pre-validates certificates to prevent dialing delays, even under heavy
loads or network outages. Finally, NanoCert LTE is highly configurable and
easily adapts to differing operator environments.
Mocana offers an optional binary FIPS 140-2 level 1 validated cryptographic
library for key generation and all cryptographic operations, a prerequisite
for the most security-conscious buyers. NanoCert LTE is also available in
cross-platform ANSI-C source code, and both source and binary versions
include full support for NSA's Suite B algorithms that provide government
agencies and contractors another option for secure communications when
classified "Suite A" algorithms are inappropriate, or not available to
them.
"The iPhone, Android and the Palm Pre have made it abundantly clear that
the future of the Internet lies in devices that travel with us, not in the
box and screen on our office desktops," said Adrian Turner, President and
CEO of Mocana. "LTE/3GPP standards documents are quite specific about the
device integrity and communications security measures needed for these
next-generation infrastructure appliances. But implementing those security
specifications was non-trivial, to say the least, and represented a
significant time and cash expense to LTE and 4G development teams. NanoCert
LTE was built to make securing these new platforms quick, painless and
cheap, so that businesses and consumers everywhere can start doing more --
with confidence -- with these revolutionary new platforms."
NanoCert LTE is available now. Developers working on LTE or 4G eNodeB or
Serving Gateway devices can request free trial of NanoCert LTE at
http://mocana.com/nanocert.html.
About Mocana
Mocana secures the "Internet of Things" -- the 20 billion datacom,
smartgrid, federal, consumer, industrial and medical devices that connect
across every sector of our economy. These devices already outnumber
workstations and servers on the Internet by at least five to one,
representing a $900 billion market that's growing twice as fast as the PC
market. Every day, millions of people use products sold by over 100
companies that leverage Mocana's Device Integrity software, including Dell,
Cisco, Honeywell, General Electric, General Dynamics, Avaya, Nortel
Networks, Harris and Radvision, among others. Mocana won Frost & Sullivan's
Technology Innovation of the Year award for 2008 for Device Security, and
was named to the Red Herring Global 100 as one of the "top 100
privately-held technology companies in the world" in January 2009.